How do you tell a story with a rendering? How can a 3D model be transformed into a work of art? Is it the illumination, the camera settings, the props, or the composition that brings a project to life and transforms it from a flat image into an inspiring representation of your architectural project? Whether you are a new AutoCAD® or Revit® software user or a production professional who is looking for a new angle on your projects, this class immerses you in the creative and technical architectural visualization possibilities that are available in Building Design Suite. By learning basic principles of architectural photography and the qualities of great interior and exterior images, you can gain a fresh perspective for producing renderings that will delight and inspire your clients.

Many Autodesk products give users the ability to share design data for collaboration with multiple stakeholders. AutoCAD software's Simple Share and Inventor software's Connected Design Share are two examples of similar functionality done differently between products. Wouldn't it be nice if the same functionality and workflows existed across multiple Autodesk products? This session will explore a common way to share your Autodesk designs though the Autodesk Viewer across Autodesk products. You will have the ability to see design concepts and provide your feedback and requirements to the AutoCAD, Inventor, Vault and Autodesk Cloud Platform Product Teams.

Learn how to overcome technical hurdles such as large-model rendering. We’ll provide proven hardware configuration and software customizations for application (Inventor software, AutoCAD software, and Vault software) optimization, eliminating productivity decline and system crashes. This presentation will show software customization and hardware recommendations through Microsoft PowerPoint.

In this class you will see how you can use the Vault software API and the View and Data API together. The View and Data API enables you to programmatically view models in 3D in a browser. The Vault software API enables you to download files from Vault software. The topics covered in this class will be from an application that uses C# Vault API calls to download files along with View and Data API REST calls to translate the files. You will see how to use the View and Data API JavaScript functions to view the translated files. Please note that prior programming knowledge with C#, REST, and JavaScript is recommended. This class is not suitable for people who do not have any programming experience.

AutoCAD software has weathered great industrial shifts and business transformations, from mainframe eras to desktop era to an era of connected experience. These advances were game changers and we are at the cusp of yet another shift. In this roundtable focused on Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) members, we will conduct a series of interactions and demonstrations to prepare for this change. We will understand how AUGI and Autodesk, Inc., together drive the change of a product that has lived through many profound changes before. We will use luma techniques in an immersive way to help design the experience for the future using, for example, Affinity Mapping and Creative Matrix. As part of the AutoCAD Experience Team that drives AUGI requests each year, this will give us a stimulating environment with AUGI to chart a course together for the future.

Additive manufacturing (AM) is bringing new innovations to traditional methods of manufacturing. AM is now being used to manufacture composite tooling, saving composite manufacturers cost and lead time over traditional tooling methods and materials. Composite tooling is typically an expensive process, due to the materials required to survive the various manufacturing processes involved. Tooling is exposed to excessive temperatures, pressures, and forces, causing tools to be unusable after a period of time. Manufacturing problems like warpage can render an expensive tool useless. This course will inform composite manufacturers about which AM methods, materials, and optimization techniques can be used to substitute traditional tooling. It will also cover the various composite manufacturing methods that can take advantage of additive tooling, and how to verify that the tooling will be appropriate for the design manufacturing process.

Intended for intermediate to advanced users of AutoCAD Civil 3D software and InfraWorks software, this class is designed to show civil design professionals techniques and nuances for creating a real-time interactive environment of their site designs using Autodesk's Stingray game engine. This class will consist of a live demonstration showing how to create a "world" out of your site design that can be navigated utilizing an Xbox One controller and a virtual reality headset. Specifically, this class will discuss workflow issues the presenter encountered when constructing a one-square-mile simulation of the urban core of Austin, Texas, utilizing only LIDAR (light detection and ranging) and planimetric data.

In this class you will learn how to present and evaluate simulation data for computer-generated and scanned environments by using Autodesk, Inc.’s, latest real-time technology, Stingray software. We will use Autodesk’s cloud offering ReCap Photo software to capture real-world data using drone flights and GoPro, Inc., videos, and we’ll prepare models and textures using 3ds Max software and Memento software. You can use the captured environment for simulation and in-context display of Building Information Modeling (BIM) data sets, which we will present using Stingray—a real-time engine that is capable of not only creating interactive story telling, but can also be used to create virtual reality experiences on mobile, web, and desktop platforms.

This class will explore the brand new Autodesk, Inc., web APIs. Attendees will explore AutoCAD I/O API and View and Data capabilities, learning how to use these technologies, but also how to use both together. We will explore the potential of these APIs to empower your cloud solutions by enriching them with visualization features, asynchronous processing, and zero-client products.

Reacting to client demands with speed and accuracy is why they keep coming back, so don't let last-minute changes to your detailed animations force you to work overtime. Eliminate the hours spent modifying your animations and start controlling and editing their parameters in real time. Whether it's the dynamic components of a complex thrill ride for theme park previsualization, a simple ceiling fan for your next virtual reality walk-through, or the interlocking gears of the clock tower in that dramatic scene in your upcoming game-you're dedicated to making that animated sequence perfect. While few things up the "wow factor" like a properly animated scene, few things kill your budget as quickly as time spent editing and retiming complex keyframed animations. Learn valuable techniques and some tips and tricks in 3ds Max software to create a "virtual remote control" that modifies animated parameters with the click of a button. So, forget about keyframing-take control of your animations and never sweat that deadline again.

Ever want to see virtual reality's (VR's) utility beyond glorified renders? VR's veracity of scale and presence provides entirely new creative capabilities. Before spending a dime, designers have the ability to iterate through ideas and then communicate them to clients and collaborators with incredible clarity at all stages of project development. Plans, sections, and even renderings of 3D models are all 2D representations of 3D space developed in 2D mediums. Only VR provides a fully 3D representation of 3D space, letting you design in a medium remarkably close to the end result. Drawing on my experience running a VR consultancy, I will show you how to take full advantage of VR as a practical, fun, and engaging new tool that leads to more-confident choices, clearer communication, and better design. Learn how to design from within VR itself. Cycle a project through VR across a workflow of VR design tools, Revit software, 3ds Max software, game engines-then rinse and repeat. Unleash your inner creative.

In the flurry of excitement of using virtual reality (VR) in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, people have forgotten why they wanted to use VR in the first place. To ensure that you're staying on target and not using VR for the sake of VR, this class will provide VR guidance to the eager professionals who are already using Revit software in their practices. We will cover current popular VR use cases, such as design review and rapid design prototyping, which will define why VR is relevant. We will discuss current VR hardware/software that will define what you'll need for VR. Finally, we will demonstrate an easy VR workflow using Revit and Revit Live, which will define how you can easily take your Revit projects to VR today.

RT/VR has been here for a while, we are all familiar with the different players and we all have been wowed by its advancement in the architectural visualization industry. Now that the dust has settled and the technology is out in the wild, it's our job to discover how to use it in a meaningful way that goes beyond entertainment.



Is RT/VR a tool that will help designers and people in general understand spaces and interact with them in a unique way? If so, where do we go from here?



We will talk about where we are today - and where we want to be in the future. Then, we will walk through exploratory samples that helped us develop some of the tools and to understand its more practical uses that could be provided as a service to our clients. Finally, we will show a few real-world samples of the work we have done to help our clients express their vision.



So, Are we there yet?

In this hands-on lab, you'll use AutoCAD software to create a basic 3D game environment and a side-scrolling 3D game environment. Learn how to create and import street furniture, buildings, vehicles, and other 3D objects using AutoCAD software's Solid, Surface, and Mesh tools. Export the 3D environment to an FBX file format for the Stingray gaming engine. Import the AutoCAD 3D model into Stingray to see the model in real time. This class is designed to expand your AutoCAD 3D modeling knowledge.

In this class, students will learn how to use Revit software, the Live add-in, and Stingray game engine to create high-quality, interactive visualizations from 3D models. First, you will learn how to use the Live add-in to convert 3D Revit models to the game engine, Stingray. Once in Stingray engine, you will learn how to create immersive environments for your clients. In these environments, owners can explore, interact, and even edit their own projects. They can choose from various design options and view the costs associated with them. Students will learn a workflow that is simple, repeatable, and teachable, even for those unfamiliar with video games or programming. The benefits of using gaming in construction include increasing owner involvement, reducing the time and effort it takes to produce an attractive proposal, and facilitating bidding on smaller projects with a quality offering only affordable by larger projects today. Visualizations through Stingray game engine ultimately lead to winning more work. This session features Autodesk Stingray and Revit. AIA Approved

In this class, students will learn how Skanska created high-quality, interactive estimates and schedules in virtual reality (VR) by linking external Building Information Modeling (BIM) data sources into Autodesk's Stingray interactive engine. First, we'll demonstrate how Skanska exported BIM data from Revit software into an external data source. Information in the external data source will be organized and sorted. Then, we'll import that information into Stingray in various configurations to create interactive, immersive environments leveraging a repeatable workflow that enables our clients to visualize different design, cost, and scheduling options in VR. As a result, clients will be able to visualize 4D schedules and 5D estimates. They will be able to choose from various design and material options and see the costs associated with them. Finally, they will be able to export the information from Stingray to an external data source. Benefits of estimating and scheduling in VR include realistic design visualization and real-time decision making.

This class will introduce users to the Slate Material Editor in 3ds Max software. Some longtime users are still using the CME (Compact Material Editor), and many new users may find it confusing or overwhelming. This class will break down the parts and functionality of the node-based editor window, and offer many timesaving tips and tricks for creating stunning materials for 3D.

Most real-time rendering programs that let you bring in your Revit projects show amazing graphics-however, they are limited to one "moment" in time and therefore capture only a near-static project with very little physics or interaction-until now. With Autodesk Live (Revit software's real-time rendering viewer) and a little spice from the Stingray game engine, your projects will become living, breathing buildings as they were meant to be. And it's possible to easily add "the extra spice," such as moving elevators, people, and medical equipment, and supporting vehicle construction equipment. In this class, attendees will learn to use the real-time rendering of Autodesk Live, and learn how to bring Revit models into it. Also, attendees will learn how to bring Autodesk Live models into Stingray to add that extra spice to projects by using real-time rendering and real-time physics.

Do you want to extend your workflows and use BIM models to create VR experiences that will wow your clients and project stakeholders?

This class will cover how Mott MacDonald, working with Autodesk consultancy, have been developing our own VR capability using Autodesk technologies.

This class is aimed at architects and engineers with a BIM background but little or no VR experience. We believe VR can add value to every project type and we will give you an in-depth look at the processes and workflows we have used to create VR experiences for Buildings, Transportation, Energy and Water projects.



We will start with the basics; VR hardware and how to prepare BIM models for VR using Stingray, Revit Live and 3DS Max. Fitting for Las Vegas, we will be 'upping the ante' with live demonstrations so we can share with you the variety ways we have brought our designs to life using video game technology, and how this is all possible without writing a single line of code.

By now you've probably heard about the latest trend to take technology by storm: augmented reality (AR). And from what you've read in tech magazines or seen on YouTube, you probably geek out about it like the rest of us. Yeah, virtual reality (VR), AR, and mixed reality (whatever that means) sound and look really cool, like everything we've seen in sci-fi movies is becoming REAL reality. We're approaching the point where we've accepted this idea, but how can we use the technology in a practical sense and actually get some value from these expensive headsets, other than just explaining to owners that it's "super cool?" That is what this session will be all about. We're going to demonstrate the ways and methods that you can use your design models (Revit software), use real information that is updated through BIM 360 software, and take them into an AR or VR environment (using the Stingray gaming engine) and actually view the stuff that matters in the field.